Book Review: Red Queen - Victoria Aveyard

Title: Red Queen
Author: Victoria Aveyard
Publication Date: February 10th 2015
Publisher: Orion
Pages: 383
Link to GoodReads: Here
Part of a series: Yes

Plot: The poverty stricken Reds are commoners, living under the rule of the Silvers, elite warriors with god-like powers.

To Mare Barrow, a 17-year-old Red girl from The Stilts, it looks like nothing will ever change.

Mare finds herself working in the Silver Palace, at the centre of

those she hates the most. She quickly discovers that, despite her red blood, she possesses a deadly power of her own. One that threatens to destroy Silver control.

But power is a dangerous game. And in this world divided by blood, who will win?

Reading Period:  March 03, 2015 - March 10, 2015

Review: 

Joining the YA Dystopian Book Club in Goodreads gave me a lot of opportunities to read books that I might not have picked up at first. I'm glad I did.

Red Queen is a great début book by Victoria Aveyard.  At first when I read about the society being divided into Reds and Silver I thought "Oh no, it's going to be like Red Rising, why is it popular among writers today to divided society into colours?" So, I was a bit sceptical during the first chapters, But Victoria writing is so good and the story so compelling that I immediately got involved with the characters and plot. The author creates this new world to the minimal detail, you can really imagine in your head every scene.

This is a book about power and how to rise to the challenge. Mare is a heroin but she is also flawed. She doesn't know who to trust in this new word, and she often gets involved with the wrong people and makes mistakes along the way. 

If you loved Hunger Games and Divergent you will love this new dystopian fantasy.  There are a lot of plot twists, surprising revelations. palace life, power games, betrayals, magic.  

I don't know how much to say without spoiling the book. To really understand why people love it, you must read it. Personally I can't wait for the second book and even before that the short novella that Aveyard has promised us. 

“Rise, red as the dawn.” 

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